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A local restaurant offers "all you can eat" bbq special. you pay $9, and then you can eat as many servings as you desire at no additional cost. You should stop eating when:
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Your marginal utility (or value) derived from eating another serving is zero
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According to the "Income effect", when price of automobiles rises, people buy fewer automobiles because:
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The purchasing power of their incomes is reduced
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The demand for "chocolate chip cookie dough" ice cream is likely quite price elastic because:
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other flavors of ice cream are good substitutes for this particular flavor
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If demand price elasticity measures 2.0, this implies that consumers will:
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Buy 2 percent more of the product in response to a 1 percent drop in price
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If a 10 percent rise in airfares leads to a 5 percent increase in total expenditures on air travel, the price elasticity of demand for air travel in this range must be:
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relatively price inelastic
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When a good is more generally defined (like a starbucks carmel machiatto instead of a "coffee"
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it will have fewer substitutes, so demand will be less elastic
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If a demand curve for a good is completely horizontal, it is considered to be:
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perfectly price elastic
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If the demand for a product decreases after an increase in income, it can be concluded that the :
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product is an inferior good
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In the short run, the firm's Average Fixed Costs (AFC)
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always decrease if output is increased
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If the CRO of a large corporation uses the corporate jet to fly friends to the Super Bowl next weekend at company expense, this is most clearly an example of
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the principal-agent problem.
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Which of the following is a typical difference between corporations and partnerships?
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corporate owners have limited liability; owners of partnerships have unlimited liability
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Hostile Takeover bids (and the potential of such bids)
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increase the incentive of corporate managers to performs efficiently, and earn a profit
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Which of the following items is most likely to be an implicit cost of production?
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the interest income foregone on the equity capital invested by owners
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Assume a local doughnut shop produces about 600 dozen doughnuts daily. If the price of one of their resources (like flour) increases by 20 percent, then:
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Their marginal cost, average variable cost, and average total cost curves will all shift up
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which one of the following decisions most clearly reflect a lack of understanding of the concept of sunk costs?
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you study eight hours for a final exam in a course, even though there is no way now that you can pass because you did not take the mid-term exam earlier in the quarter
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If the interest rate were 10 percent, how much would people be willing to pay for a preferred stock that was expected to pay a $1 yearly dividend continuously in the future
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you 10.00
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As a general rule. common stockholders realize the majority of their investment return from:
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capital gains
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At last count, what percentage of U.S. households own stock, either directly or through an equity mutual fund?
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about 50%
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The market for new issues of both stocks and bonds is called the:
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primary market
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Investors are often willing to pay posititive prices for shares of firms that have never earned a postivie accounting profit because the investors
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expect the firms to have postitive net earnings in the future
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during the last two centuries, after adjustment for inflation,
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corporate stocks have yielded a nominal return of approximately 11 percent annually, compared to a nominal return of about 7 percent for bonds
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In price-taker markets, individual firms have no control over the market price. Therefore, the firm's marginal revenue curve is
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constant at the market price of the product
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which of the hollowing is a primary difference between price searchers and price takers?
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price searchers have to cut their price to sell additional output, but price takers do not
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If marginal revenue is less than the marginal cost, a profit- maximizing price-taker firm should
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reduce its output
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in a "perfectly competitive" market
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many selling firms are offering a product that is essentially identical
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As the period of time firms can expand output is lengthened, elasticity of the supply curve will
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increase
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Suppose a typical firm in a particular industry is making posititive economics profits. these economic profits
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signal owners of factors of production to move resources into this industry